Mr. Speaker, yesterday the premier of Newfoundland, Clyde Wells, said he considered that Quebec was indeed a distinct society but that there was no question of its having any particular status or real powers. These words killed the hopes of the no side, and especially of Daniel Johnson and Pierre Paradis, who are still begging the Prime Minister of Canada to commit himself to including this concept of a distinct society in the constitution.
Will the Minister of Labour admit that the government of Canada could not include the notion of a distinct society in the constitution, even if it wanted to, because there will always be the likes of Clyde Wells, Frank McKenna and Roy Romanow there to tell us to forget about any ideas of a distinct society?